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From Lawmen to Plowmen

Stephen Yeager

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  • 280 sidor
  • 2014
The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langlands Piers Plowman and the flourishing of alliterative verse satires in late medieval England by observing the similarities between these satires and the legal-homiletical literature of the Anglo-Saxon era. Unlike Old English alliterative poetry, Anglo-Saxon legal texts and documents continued to be studied long after the Norman Conquest. By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langlands Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. His conclusions establish a new genealogy for medieval Englands vernacular literary tradition and offer a new way of approaching one of Middle Englishs literary classics.
  • Författare: Stephen Yeager
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781442643475
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 280
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-10-17
  • Förlag: University of Toronto Press